Lovely Runner

Series Similar to Lovely Runner

If you enjoyed Lovely Runner, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.

2. Chicago Typewriter

   2017 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Chicago Typewriter is a story about three writers who lived during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s, and are reincarnated into the present as a best-selling writer in a slump, an anti-fan and a ghostwriter.

3. 49 Days

   2011 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile.

   A young woman named Ji Hyun was enjoying absolute bliss as she was about to be married with her fiancé, but her perfect life is shattered in a car accident that left her in a coma. She is given a second chance at life by a reaper, but it comes with a condition: she has to find three people outside of her family who would cry genuine tears for her. In order to do this, she borrows the body of Yi Kyung, a part-time employee at a convenience store.

4. Princess Hours

   2006 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   In an imaginary world, modern-day Korea is run by a constitutional monarchy facing crumbling popularity after the recent death of the reigning King. To try to help the situation, the Royal Family decides to marry off the Crown Prince, Lee Shin, prior to his ascension to the throne. To their horror, however, they discover that the dead King's father, Shin's grandfather, had a pact with a commoner that their grandchildren would marry.Enter headstrong, klutzy, Shin Chae Kyung, an average girl who is now suddenly engaged to the country's Crown Prince. Prince Shin has no intention of making things easy for his commoner fiancée, however, especially since he's got his eye on someone else. Chae Kyung soon finds her work cut out for her in adapting to palace life and trying to please the Royal Family. Her optimistic spirit captures the attention of Lee Yul, the other contender for the throne who, while trying to win the Princess in order to gain the throne, finds himself falling in love with her for real.Among the plots, deceptions, and expectations in the mix, can the Royal couple see one another for who they really are and manage to fall in love?

5. Melting Me Softly

   2019 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Go Mi Ran is a young jobseeker who is told she will be given around US$ 4,200 if she takes part in a cryogenic freezing program. She is told that she will be frozen for just 24 hours and then leave with her money.Also being frozen is Ma Dong Chan, a popular entertainment TV producer who is cold as ice when it comes to working – but tends to get hot and passionate when it comes to affairs of the heart.But instead of waking up a day later, the duo awakes from cryogenic slumber to find they have slept through 20 years. All the people Mi Ran and Dong Chan once knew have aged by 20 years, but their own bodies and memories have not changed at all.Life 20 years in the future is not easy – and things are made harder for the duo when they discover that should their body temperatures rise above 33 degrees Celsius, they will die.When Mi Ran and Dong Chan begin developing feelings for each other, temperatures start to rise…spawning all sorts of dramatic consequences.Will the duo fight back the heat of a potentially fatal romance? And will they discover the mysterious reason why they were frozen for two decades – and the role of the enigmatic Dr. Hwang, the shady figure behind the freezing project?

6. Queen In Hyun's Man

   2012 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Kim Boong Do is a scholar who had supported the reinstatement of Queen In Hyun when Jang heebin's schemes resulted in her being deposed and replaced as King Sukjong's queen consort. He travels 300 years into the future of modern Seoul and meets Choi Hee Jin, a no-name actress who is expecting a career renaissance through her role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama.

7. Cherry Magic

   2023 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Meet Achi, an extremely ordinary employee at a stationery company. He is single and a virgin because he has never been in a relationship in his life. On his 30th birthday, Achi is shocked to discover his superpower to read minds by touching people. Of course, it's not something he wants. Believing mind reading is only going to give him headaches, he avoids touching anyone at all costs. Unfortunately, Achi's situation takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally reads his handsome, perfect colleague Karan and learns that this guy who is always in a good mood and has a smile on his face is falling for him. To stop things from going too far, Achi tries to keep a distance from Karan.Achi goes to his 30-year-old writer best friend Jinta for advice, considering he might be a love expert. At first, Jinta thinks Achi has probably worked too hard and imagined things in his head. On Jinta's birthday not long after, it turns out that he is also a virgin with the same superpower. More importantly, Jinta is currently falling in love with a delivery guy named Minwho is almost 10 years apart. The two best friends are caught up in a love mess. Also in the picture are Rock, a younger staff member who seems very close to Achi and gets Karan into his possessive mode, and Pai, a cute single girl at the office whom everyone roots for to date Achi. However, Pai is a boys' love fan who can't help but notice that there's something going on between Karan and Achi in secret. How will the love story of 30-year-old virgins unfold? 

8. The Legend of the Blue Sea

   2016 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern-day Seoul? Shim Chung is a mermaid who finds herself transplanted to modern times. She is caught by Heo Joon Jae, a charming but cold con artist who is the doppelgänger for Kim Moon, the son of a nobleman from the Joseon Dynasty. But in the present time, Joon Jae works with Jo Nam Doo, a skilled conman who guides Joon Jae to become a genius scammer. But Joon Jae's friend, Cha Shi Ah, who works as a researcher at KAIST, may be Chung's only hope for surviving in her strange new world.

9. Rooftop Prince

   2012 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   A prince from the Joseon era, Lee Gak, is catapulted 300 years forward into the future in Seoul 2012 with his entourage, which includes Song Man Bo, Do Chi San and Woo Young Sul, when he tries to investigate the suspicious circumstances which surround the death of the girl he loved. In the present, he finds a girl who looks exactly like his beloved crown princess...

10. My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

    2010 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Fantasy / Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Cha Dae Woong is a spoiled brat with plans to become a successful action star. One day, on the run from his rich grandfather's latest fit of rage towards him, he accidentally frees a nine-tailed fox, Gu Mi Ho, who has been imprisoned in a painting for 500 years. Frightened at first, he runs away to the woods and ends up getting seriously injured. Feeling indebted to him, Gu Mi Ho gives him her " fox orb " a powerful part of her life force, to heal him. When he wakes up, the two form an awkward partnership, as Dae Woong begins to rely on the power of the orb to shoot his action sequences, while also giving in to Mi Ho's request to teach her how to act human. Though Dae Woong is initially acting out of fear, things start to change as he gradually begins to fall for her. However, Mi Ho will be faced with a terrible choice as her time in human form runs out in this heart-wrenching comedy.